p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"span style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;"Chapter 2:Meeting the family./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"span style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;"King Vegeta walked me down the hall, showing me the many rooms in the palace. "And this is the dining hall," King Vegeta replied. King Vegeta opened the doors and I gasped. "WOW! THIS PLACE IS HUGE!" I said. "Has to be…If it's going to hold all of the Saiyans," King Vegeta explained. I gasped. "ALL of the Saiyans eat here?!" I asked. King Vegeta nodded. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"Wow!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "So when do we eat?" I asked. "I'm STARVING so badly, I could eat a four-course meal and have SECONDS afterwards!" King Vegeta chuckled at my comment as a buzzer rang out. I covered my ears until it finally stopped. "OW! What WAS that?!" I said. "The dinner buzzer," King Vegeta replied. "It means that you can finally eat. It also lets the Saiyans who are training know. Likewise, the Saiyans who live outside of the palace." I was shocked. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"No wonder it's so loud!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "The royal family goes inside first," King Vegeta explained. "So my sons and wife should be arriving shortly." /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I wonder what they're like,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. Then the door behind us slid open, and three Saiyans stepped out. The tallest of the three was a woman with curly black hair, and a round, friendly face. Holding her hand was a boy about my age, with short, spiky black hair, with dark black eyes. Next to him was a boy with black hair that stood on end like a candle on end like a candle on a flame, and the same black eyes as the woman and the other boy. The two boys were sweating and bleeding. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"Guess they were in a fight,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "That wasn't fair, Vegeta!" the younger boy complained. "What wasn't?" the boy named Vegeta replied, smirking. "The fact that I kicked your ass?!" "Vegeta!" the woman scolded. "Watch your language around your little brother!" /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I'm guessing she's his mother,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "Tarble," the woman said gently. "Your brother won the fight fair and square…You should accept that and train HARDER if you want to beat him. Do you boys understand?" "Yes mom," Vegeta and Tarble replied in unison. "Good," the woman replied. "This better NOT happen again!" Then the woman turned her attention to me. "Why hello there!" she said sweetly. "What's your name, honey?" I cringed. I HATED being called "honey"! "Ammara," I replied, smiling. "What's yours?" The woman smiled. "I'm Saira," She replied. "And these are my sons. My eldest son Vegeta, and my youngest son, Tarble." I gasped as I saw that Saira, Vegeta, and Tarble were wearing the same armor as me. "Are…Are YOU from the Vegeta-Sai family too?" I asked. Saira chuckled. "Why yes," she replied, smiling. "Considering the fact that King Vegeta is my HUSBAND." I gasped and looked over at King Vegeta. "She's your WIFE?!" I replied. King Vegeta nodded, and walked over to Saira. "So my dear…How was the boys' training session?" he said. "They both gave it their all," Saira replied. "But in the end, Vegeta beat Tarble." I looked over at Vegeta, who smirked. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I won't mess with him,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"He's SCARY!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" "Good job, Vegeta," King Vegeta replied. "Thank you, father," Vegeta said. "Tarble," King Vegeta said. "You've GOT to be more focused in training!" "I'm trying" Tarble said. "Well do better than TRY! You're MY son! So ACT like it!" King Vegeta yelled. Tears filled Tarble's eyes and, without saying another word to his father, Tarble ran away, crying as he did so. My eyes narrowed. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"That's NO WAY to treat a child!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought angrily. I turned to follow Tarble, but Vegeta's hand grabbed my wrist. "Let him go," Vegeta said, once his parents were out of earshot. "He ISN'T worth the trouble." Tears filled my could Vegeta say that about his OWN brother?! "Poor Tarble," I said. "Hmph! He may BE my brother…" Vegeta said. "But he's too SOFT!" I groaned. "Yeah, but-!" "But WHAT?!" Vegeta asked. "He's STILL your BROTHER, Vegeta-kun!" I protested. "Shouldn't you be going after him?!" Vegeta smirked. "Don't trouble your pretty little head about HIM!.." he said. "My little brother may be soft-headed and a crybaby…But he's STILL a SAIYAN… He'll get over our father's words." I smiled a little, knowing Vegeta was right. "Oh and one more thing…" Vegeta added. "Huh?" I watched as a fist lodged into my stomach. I coughed and fell to my knees. "Don't EVER call me 'Kun again!" Vegeta replied. "Also, why don't you go back to wherever the hell you came from?! You aren't worthy to be in the house as me! Or in the same FAMILY as me, for that matter!" Then Vegeta walked into the dining room, laughing as he did so. I stood up and followed Vegeta inside. I grabbed my food and looked for a place to sit. Just when it seemed that I'd never find anywhere…"Heeey! Ammara! Over here!" I gasped. I KNEW that voice! Sure enough, I turned and saw Kakarot waving me over to his table. "Hey Kakarot!" I said, smiling. "Wow! Cool armor!" Kakarot said. "Isn't that the crest of the Vegeta-Sai" Raditz asked. I nodded. "As of today, I'm currently living in the Vegeta-Sai household," I replied. Raditz and Kakarot gasped. "T-that's a high honor for ANY Saiyan!" Kakarot said. "Yeah…But so far…I HATE it!" I said. "Why?" Raditz asked. "I called Prince Vegeta 'Vegeta-Kun', and he punched me and told me never to call him that again," I replied. "Did ya hit him back?!" Kakarot asked. I shook my head. "Nope…I just took it." "Aww! But why NOT?!" Kakarot whined. "It's not your business." I replied, annoyed by Kakarot's questions. "Aww! C'mon! You know you can tell me ANYTHING, right?" Kakarot said. "I SAID NO, NOW DROP IT!" I yelled furiously. "Aww! But-!" Kakarot protested. "Kakarot…It isn't nice to probe in someone else's business like that," a male voice said. I turned and saw a man with hair EXACTLY like Kakarot's, green-and-black Saiyan armor, and an X-shaped Scar on his left cheek. "I'm Bardock-San, Raditz and Kakarot's father." I gasped. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"Father?!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought in shock. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"But he looks YOUNGER than Raditz and Kakarot!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" "I'm Ammara," I replied. "It's nice to meet you, Bardock-sama." I bowed and Bardock-San smiled. "I appreciate your respect," he said calmly. "But I'm not high enough in class to be called 'Sama'. So just stick to 'San', okay?" I nodded. "Are you a low-class soldier too?" I asked. Bardock nodded. "How'd you know?" he asked. "My mother was too," I said. "From what I've heard, anyway." "Ammara!" King Vegeta called. "Coming!" I replied. "See you guys tomorrow!" Bardock, Kakarot, and Raditz waved goodbye to me. I smiled and did the same as I ran to King Vegeta. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I'm sure Vegeta didn't mean what he said earlier,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I bet deep down, he's HAPPY to have me here! Even though he won't admit it!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I smiled and walked out of the dining Hall./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"span style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;"King Vegeta walked me down the hall, showing me the many rooms in the palace. "And this is the dining hall," King Vegeta replied. King Vegeta opened the doors and I gasped. "WOW! THIS PLACE IS HUGE!" I said. "Has to be…If it's going to hold all of the Saiyans," King Vegeta explained. I gasped. "ALL of the Saiyans eat here?!" I asked. King Vegeta nodded. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"Wow!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "So when do we eat?" I asked. "I'm STARVING so badly, I could eat a four-course meal and have SECONDS afterwards!" King Vegeta chuckled at my comment as a buzzer rang out. I covered my ears until it finally stopped. "OW! What WAS that?!" I said. "The dinner buzzer," King Vegeta replied. "It means that you can finally eat. It also lets the Saiyans who are training know. Likewise, the Saiyans who live outside of the palace." I was shocked. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"No wonder it's so loud!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "The royal family goes inside first," King Vegeta explained. "So my sons and wife should be arriving shortly." /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I wonder what they're like,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. Then the door behind us slid open, and three Saiyans stepped out. The tallest of the three was a woman with curly black hair, and a round, friendly face. Holding her hand was a boy about my age, with short, spiky black hair, with dark black eyes. Next to him was a boy with black hair that stood on end like a candle on end like a candle on a flame, and the same black eyes as the woman and the other boy. The two boys were sweating and bleeding. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"Guess they were in a fight,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "That wasn't fair, Vegeta!" the younger boy complained. "What wasn't?" the boy named Vegeta replied, smirking. "The fact that I kicked your ass?!" "Vegeta!" the woman scolded. "Watch your language around your little brother!" /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I'm guessing she's his mother,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. "Tarble," the woman said gently. "Your brother won the fight fair and square…You should accept that and train HARDER if you want to beat him. Do you boys understand?" "Yes mom," Vegeta and Tarble replied in unison. "Good," the woman replied. "This better NOT happen again!" Then the woman turned her attention to me. "Why hello there!" she said sweetly. "What's your name, honey?" I cringed. I HATED being called "honey"! "Ammara," I replied, smiling. "What's yours?" The woman smiled. "I'm Saira," She replied. "And these are my sons. My eldest son Vegeta, and my youngest son, Tarble." I gasped as I saw that Saira, Vegeta, and Tarble were wearing the same armor as me. "Are…Are YOU from the Vegeta-Sai family too?" I asked. Saira chuckled. "Why yes," she replied, smiling. "Considering the fact that King Vegeta is my HUSBAND." I gasped and looked over at King Vegeta. "She's your WIFE?!" I replied. King Vegeta nodded, and walked over to Saira. "So my dear…How was the boys' training session?" he said. "They both gave it their all," Saira replied. "But in the end, Vegeta beat Tarble." I looked over at Vegeta, who smirked. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I won't mess with him,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"He's SCARY!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" "Good job, Vegeta," King Vegeta replied. "Thank you, father," Vegeta said. "Tarble," King Vegeta said. "You've GOT to be more focused in training!" "I'm trying" Tarble said. "Well do better than TRY! You're MY son! So ACT like it!" King Vegeta yelled. Tears filled Tarble's eyes and, without saying another word to his father, Tarble ran away, crying as he did so. My eyes narrowed. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"That's NO WAY to treat a child!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought angrily. I turned to follow Tarble, but Vegeta's hand grabbed my wrist. "Let him go," Vegeta said, once his parents were out of earshot. "He ISN'T worth the trouble." Tears filled my could Vegeta say that about his OWN brother?! "Poor Tarble," I said. "Hmph! He may BE my brother…" Vegeta said. "But he's too SOFT!" I groaned. "Yeah, but-!" "But WHAT?!" Vegeta asked. "He's STILL your BROTHER, Vegeta-kun!" I protested. "Shouldn't you be going after him?!" Vegeta smirked. "Don't trouble your pretty little head about HIM!.." he said. "My little brother may be soft-headed and a crybaby…But he's STILL a SAIYAN… He'll get over our father's words." I smiled a little, knowing Vegeta was right. "Oh and one more thing…" Vegeta added. "Huh?" I watched as a fist lodged into my stomach. I coughed and fell to my knees. "Don't EVER call me 'Kun again!" Vegeta replied. "Also, why don't you go back to wherever the hell you came from?! You aren't worthy to be in the house as me! Or in the same FAMILY as me, for that matter!" Then Vegeta walked into the dining room, laughing as he did so. I stood up and followed Vegeta inside. I grabbed my food and looked for a place to sit. Just when it seemed that I'd never find anywhere…"Heeey! Ammara! Over here!" I gasped. I KNEW that voice! Sure enough, I turned and saw Kakarot waving me over to his table. "Hey Kakarot!" I said, smiling. "Wow! Cool armor!" Kakarot said. "Isn't that the crest of the Vegeta-Sai" Raditz asked. I nodded. "As of today, I'm currently living in the Vegeta-Sai household," I replied. Raditz and Kakarot gasped. "T-that's a high honor for ANY Saiyan!" Kakarot said. "Yeah…But so far…I HATE it!" I said. "Why?" Raditz asked. "I called Prince Vegeta 'Vegeta-Kun', and he punched me and told me never to call him that again," I replied. "Did ya hit him back?!" Kakarot asked. I shook my head. "Nope…I just took it." "Aww! But why NOT?!" Kakarot whined. "It's not your business." I replied, annoyed by Kakarot's questions. "Aww! C'mon! You know you can tell me ANYTHING, right?" Kakarot said. "I SAID NO, NOW DROP IT!" I yelled furiously. "Aww! But-!" Kakarot protested. "Kakarot…It isn't nice to probe in someone else's business like that," a male voice said. I turned and saw a man with hair EXACTLY like Kakarot's, green-and-black Saiyan armor, and an X-shaped Scar on his left cheek. "I'm Bardock-San, Raditz and Kakarot's father." I gasped. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"Father?!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought in shock. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"But he looks YOUNGER than Raditz and Kakarot!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" "I'm Ammara," I replied. "It's nice to meet you, Bardock-sama." I bowed and Bardock-San smiled. "I appreciate your respect," he said calmly. "But I'm not high enough in class to be called 'Sama'. So just stick to 'San', okay?" I nodded. "Are you a low-class soldier too?" I asked. Bardock nodded. "How'd you know?" he asked. "My mother was too," I said. "From what I've heard, anyway." "Ammara!" King Vegeta called. "Coming!" I replied. "See you guys tomorrow!" Bardock, Kakarot, and Raditz waved goodbye to me. I smiled and did the same as I ran to King Vegeta. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I'm sure Vegeta didn't mean what he said earlier,/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I thought. /spanemspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"I bet deep down, he's HAPPY to have me here! Even though he won't admit it!/span/emspan style="mso-spacerun: 'yes'; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; font-size: 12.0000pt; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;" I smiled and walked out of the dining Hall./span/p
